Advertising misleads consumers in every possible way

Such ready breakfasts contain about 35 percent of sugar, while cornflakes – about 39 percent, which is seven-eight times above the norm. England’s Food Standards Agency that struggles against junk food considers that the norm is five grams of sugar per 100 grams of a product. Products with medium sugar level may content 5-15 grams of sugar, but food containing over 15 grams of sugar is very unhealthy. Nonetheless, it is hard to determine under which category quark, desserts, chocolate bars, sponge cakes and other children’s products go, though advertisements try to convince us of their wholesome properties: still their packaging does not show the percentage of salt, sugar or unhealthy fats.

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Practically all advertisements of flu remedies try to convey the same idea: do not lose your time with cold or flu, take a medicine and go to work, study or do what you need to do. Most of people follow the advice: they suffer from cold and flu at work. Most people succeed, for strong remedies have an effect on symptoms.

But eliminated symptoms do not mean recovery. Flu and cold are infectious diseases. It is wrong to believe that flu is caused by cold. It cannot spring up without viruses and bacteria. These medicines are not at all harmful for them. So when you feel alright after taking medicines, viruses are continuing to propagate themselves. They poison your body imperceptibly under the disguise of medicines and this is the direct way to complications. Further still, you transmit viruses and infect people around you in transport, people you work or study with. Such advertisements are harmful not only for you, but for people around you. Within the first three or four days of your illness, when the viruses you dissipate into the atmosphere are especially active, do not go to work or any other public places.

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Translated by Julia Bulygina
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